Consultant/Contractor, Agile Scrum Delivery Resume Minneapolis - Hire IT People

OBJECTIVE:

Re - apply my experience as a Scrum Master (and current ) and successes in Information Technology product, program, project, and operations leadership, to a consulting and contracting delivery organization. My past experiences with consulting organizations, along with applying consultive approaches internally, combined with past roles as a Scrum Master and Product Owner, have offered excellent preparation and readiness.

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

Accomplished, collaborative, and adaptive IT and data delivery professional. As a product, program, project, and functional team leader, I have consistently led the delivery of technology and data services achieving improved efficiencies and reduced costs. Broad, global team leadership experience managing multiple data operations functions. Diverse in database platforms, analytics and visualization tools, and data integration tools. Proven team leadership and people management skills. Self-taught programmer. Leadership strengths and expertise delivered in:
Program Delivery/Operations Mgmt
Complex Organizations
Full Life-Cycle Data Management
Global Team Leadership
Talent Acquisition / Team Development
Business Strategy Alignment
Vision and Roadmap
Collaboration and Relationships

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Minneapolis

Consultant/Contractor, Agile Scrum Delivery

Responsibilities:

Utilizing skills and talents in consulting and contracting services. Specific targeting across multiple industries seeking modern data product delivery solutions using Agile framework. Current Scrum Master with practical experience, utilization of Jira and Microsoft Teams.

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Director/Manager, Information Management

Responsibilities:

Functional and team leadership to Enterprise Information Management team. Managed delivery and operations of ETL, data modeling, database management, and analytics. Using Agile, led delivery of cloud-based visualization solution. Established Microsoft Teams as product management and collaboration tool. Managed Kanban boards on multiple data delivery products. Led RFP vendor and partner selection of SaaS-based Master Data Management solution. Improved overall team velocity on support and project work.

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Data Delivery Manager

Responsibilities:

Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence: Delivered team leadership of business intelligence, quality assurance, data modeling, business analyst, and data analyst functions. Led program startup of DW and BI re-platform. Improved product release outcomes, reducing production support incidents.

Confidential, Golden Valley, MN

Service Manager

Responsibilities:

Established 4-week Agile sprints, improving delivery velocity, efficiency, and quality.
Successfully managed yearly budgets of $3 - $5 million within 1.2% variance.
Delivered efficiencies saved $2 million in infrastructure savings in one year. Reduced production support incidents by 92% in a seven-month period, with over two billion records written or read every 24 hours.
Achieved a leadership effectiveness rating of 89%, compared to overall company average of 83%. Included 100% effectiveness ratings for diversity and inclusion, employee development, and performance support.

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Consultant Manager

Responsibilities:

Recommended the company reprioritize a $1.2 million project due to return on investment evaluation.
Delivered Orders Datamart and Marketing Effectiveness, first phases of enterprise DW/BI re-platform.
Received promotion to next level of senior manager.

Confidential, Richfield, MN

Product Capability Owner

Responsibilities:

Human Capital Scorecard project budget of $1 million helped enable an ROI of $36 million in the first year.
Delivered first-time analytics solution to the Musicland group. Improved product turns, reduced inventory costs.
Delivered first-time analytics solution to Magnolia Audio Video. CFO used product for financial reporting.
Evaluated, hired, coached, and directed globally diverse project teams.
Received promotion to the next level of product capability manager.